Karun Sharma, M.D., is an interventional radiologist, and director of the interventional radiology section at Children’s National Hospital, in addition to his work as principal investigator in the Sheikh Zayed Institute. Dr. Sharma’s collaborative and translational research is aimed at furthering the use of image-guided, minimally invasive therapy in children. Specifically, he is working on enhancing local drug delivery techniques in cancer and thrombosis and has been principal or co-investigator on clinical trials evaluating the role of endovascular treatment of deep vein thrombosis as well as the role of chemoembolization and image-guided ablation for treatment of liver cancer. He is translating this previous experience into the pediatric population. He is also interested in evaluating the role of MR- guided high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) to treat pediatric conditions.
Dr. Sharma joins the Sheikh Zayed Institute from his previous position as Assistant Professor of Radiology at Georgetown University Hospital and as a research scientist in the Center for Interventional Oncology at the National Institutes of Health. He is a member of the Society of Interventional Radiology, Society for Pediatric Interventional Radiology and Radiological Society of North America. Dr. Sharma has authored or co-authored numerous abstracts and peer-reviewed articles. He attended medical and graduate school at the Medical College of Virginia, completed residency in Radiology and fellowship in Vascular and Interventional Radiology at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University in St. Louis.